Nancy White - Stewarding technology for communities.

Technology steward selects the tools, opens ( or closes) or weaves networks creating a

Digital habitats:

Me - personal ID, interest, tragectory.

We - group membership, ID, interest.

Many - boundless, fuzziness.

What polarities r at work in the 'community of practice' / 'knowledge network' / 'digital habitat'?

Togetherness ------ seperatness

Interacting ------------ publishing

Individual ------------ group

What is the orientation of our learning community - at any given time?

Individual participTion
Access to expertise
Relationships
Meetings

Steward majes Tool / elements selection based on orientation.

Tools should be invisible - SPACES should be visible .

Business IT online community/ learning community

Steve, Daniel & I r sold - our dept needs an online learning community. Could be the beginning of something really beautiful.

Teachers can post any number of resources and students can add their own content accessable from anywhere.

The adult educator : an endangered species

Anne Barrlett-Bragg.

Silent movie actors didn't see it comming, chimney sweeps didn't see it comming and now adult educators r about to cop it too.

'Knowledge Managers' r aggregating skills information, responsibility for learning has moved away from employers & learning is taking place outside of institutions.

The current economic client has deemed learning a 'descretionary spend'.

Students r not engaged & teachers r not 'breeding'. In a crowd of 200, 7 r < 30.

Gaming in the classroom

Advice is: If they r playing games they r not engaged and it's all your own fault. LOL

Apparently u should give them a blog to play with and they will transform into engaged learners.

LOL

Simon Brown - using social networking to connect with clients

Simon is a stonemasonary teacher and had an interesting story of how he used ning, YouTube & wikispaces to enhance learning/social networking. His students were predominantley young males who had exited acedemic education early on.

Stonemasonary.ning.com
Stonemasonary.wikispaces.com

Live blogging

Excuse my spelling, etc LOL

Complete with bad infomercials

There's a dood selling a content server in the following way:

Play us some real bad 'Gen Y' youtube video, scare the crap out of us then take our money. Na